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2025-2026 Lecture Series

February 2  Jim Clifford, Univ. of Saskatchewan
Cleaner Data from Joseph Banks' Archives: Benchmarking a Decade of Text Mining Historical Sources

February 9  Alexander Rosenberg, Duke Univ.
Blunt Instrument: Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better, Why We Need It Anyway

February 23  Andres Santos, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
One Instrument, Many Treatments: Instrumental Variables Identification of Multiple Causal Effects

March 16  Anna Marie Kenney, Univ. of California, Irvine
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March 30  Fabian Offert, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
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April 13  Daniel Greco, Yale Univ.
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April 20  Lorenzo Magnolfi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
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April 27  Elijah Watson, Northwestern Univ.
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September 26  Alejandro Sanchez, Assistant Professor
Bounds for Within-Household Encouragement Designs with Interference

October 31  Abhi Ananth, Assistant Professor
External Validity Under Network Interference

November 21  Nathan Gabriel, Visiting Assistant Professor
The Formation of Identity Signals in Diverse Societies

February 6  Lauren Klein, Professor
When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research

February 27  Steph Buongiorno, Post-Doctoral Researcher
Making Dissent Intelligible in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

March 20  David Hirshberg, Assistant Professor
Inference Based on Imagined Randomization

April 17  Jo Guldi, Professor
The Dates that Dominate Wikipedia's Telling of Global History

September 8  Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Univ. of South Australia
When Will AI Win a Pulitzer Prize for History?

September 14  Samuel Kou, Harvard Univ.
Catalytic Prior Distributions for Bayesian Inference

September 29  Roberto Molinari, Auburn Univ.
A Rashomon Algorithm for Sparse Model Sets

October 6  Victor Chernozhukov, MIT
Adventures in Demand Analysis Using AI

October 20  Jaap Saers, Emory Univ.
From Fossils to Function: Combining Deep Learning and Morphometrics to Unravel the Evolution of Human Locomotion

October 27  Peter Leonard, Stanford Univ.
Fine-tuning the Future: Embeddings and Digital Research Collections

November 3  Eric Auerbach, Northwestern Univ.
Uniform Confidence Bands for Network Structure

November 10  Elliott Sober, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Darwin's Reasoning About Common Ancestry

November 17  Anru Zhang, Duke Univ.
Recent Advances in Generative Modeling and Synthetic Biomedical Data

December 8  Jake Nebel, Princeton Univ.
Welfare Reflections: On Duality Conditions for Social Welfare Evaluation

December 15  Christopher Dancy & Meera Ray, Penn State Univ.
A Framework for the Human in Human-AI Interaction